• Phrase Of The Week:=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CVegetative_Electron__Microscopy=E2=80=9D?=

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Tue Mar 4 23:55:52 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    Amusing summary <https://www.computerworld.com/article/3836728/you-thought-genai-hallucinations-were-bad-things-just-got-so-much-worse.html>
    of research into how bad AIs can get in some of the rubbish results
    they produce. We knew they could lose their hold on reality and start
    making things up, but did you know they could also cheat, and tell lies
    about that cheating when confronted with it?

    For example, when given charge of doing share trades, and told not to (illegally) take advantage of insider information, they might do so
    anyway, and then simply deny it when challenged.

    Oh, and the phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” is complete
    nonsense; it originated when an AI was processing multicolumn text,
    and saw words next to each other which were in separate columns, not
    part of the same sentence at all, and ran them together anyway. From
    there, the phrase somehow spread to other publications ...
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